Alex Warnes
@awarnes.bsky.social
web developer & dad-joke teller (fmr intelligence analyst). digital & film photography, 3D modeling & VFX
https://alexwarnes.com
https://alexwarnes.com
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Alex Warnes
@awarnes.bsky.social
· Nov 19
threlte-starter - StackBlitz
A starter project for Threlte
stackblitz.com
I updated my threlte starter on StackBlitz if you're looking to try jump right into some 3D on the web:
- svelte 5
- threlte@next
- threejs r170
Starter: stackblitz.com/edit/threlte...
#threejs #svelte #threlte @sveltesociety.dev
- svelte 5
- threlte@next
- threejs r170
Starter: stackblitz.com/edit/threlte...
#threejs #svelte #threlte @sveltesociety.dev
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Want to make visuals that don’t just inform — but resonate? Join us on Nov 11 for Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization, and learn how experts balance clarity, creativity, and collaboration.
🎙️@shirleywu.studio
🎙️@tanyashapiro.bsky.social
🎙️Kelsey Nanan
🎙️@shirleywu.studio
🎙️@tanyashapiro.bsky.social
🎙️Kelsey Nanan
Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization
Great data visualization lives at the intersection of art and science. By bridging rigorous data analysis with creative design, data visualization has the power to make complex ideas easier to…
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Want to make visuals that don’t just inform — but resonate? Join us on Nov 11 for Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization, and learn how experts balance clarity, creativity, and collaboration.
🎙️@shirleywu.studio
🎙️@tanyashapiro.bsky.social
🎙️Kelsey Nanan
🎙️@shirleywu.studio
🎙️@tanyashapiro.bsky.social
🎙️Kelsey Nanan
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Today our teams across the #GazaStrip were treating severely wounded patients in attacks by Israeli forces, causing alarming civilian casualties. We have seen injured patients in Al Aqsa, Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals.
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Today our teams across the #GazaStrip were treating severely wounded patients in attacks by Israeli forces, causing alarming civilian casualties. We have seen injured patients in Al Aqsa, Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals.
Reposted by Alex Warnes
Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials. n.pr/48SFSKo
Israel says it's resuming the ceasefire after its strikes in Gaza kill over 100 people
Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials.
n.pr
October 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials. n.pr/48SFSKo
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Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S.
The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.
www.newyorker.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S.
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New from me @thenation.com: the farce at Sharm El-Sheikh displays the delusion that led to October 7 and the genocide Israel pursued after it — that the U.S. regional coalition can pursue normalization over the heads of the Palestinians, who are supposed to accept permanent subjugation.
Sharm El-Sheikh Shows That the US Has Learned Nothing From Gaza
Palestinans are expected to accept the same deal that led to October 7: permanent subjugation under the guise of “prosperity.”
www.thenation.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
New from me @thenation.com: the farce at Sharm El-Sheikh displays the delusion that led to October 7 and the genocide Israel pursued after it — that the U.S. regional coalition can pursue normalization over the heads of the Palestinians, who are supposed to accept permanent subjugation.
Made a mini doc telling the story of my friends' hobby-turned-business.
It was a labor of love and my first experience wearing three hats (film/edit/grade).
Enjoy!
youtu.be/9QNEFdlwJCY?...
#art
It was a labor of love and my first experience wearing three hats (film/edit/grade).
Enjoy!
youtu.be/9QNEFdlwJCY?...
#art
Rosewood: Handcrafted, Original Designs | Mini-doc shot on LUMIX
YouTube video by Alex Warnes
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Made a mini doc telling the story of my friends' hobby-turned-business.
It was a labor of love and my first experience wearing three hats (film/edit/grade).
Enjoy!
youtu.be/9QNEFdlwJCY?...
#art
It was a labor of love and my first experience wearing three hats (film/edit/grade).
Enjoy!
youtu.be/9QNEFdlwJCY?...
#art
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This is an absolutely brilliant piece and well worth the read - "'I think the visual lexicon of open-source investigation is something that the Israelis have co-opted as a way to try to delegitimize [those investigations] and confuse,' said Elizabeth Breiner..."
As someone who works with satellite and 3D imagery, this project reinforced how crucial it is to question what’s rendered as truth.
Keep an eye out for some follow ups in different mediums looking ahead
Full story w/ @972mag.com via Oren Ziv:
www.972mag.com/israeli-army...
Keep an eye out for some follow ups in different mediums looking ahead
Full story w/ @972mag.com via Oren Ziv:
www.972mag.com/israeli-army...
How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda
An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.
www.972mag.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is an absolutely brilliant piece and well worth the read - "'I think the visual lexicon of open-source investigation is something that the Israelis have co-opted as a way to try to delegitimize [those investigations] and confuse,' said Elizabeth Breiner..."
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I joke because haha vibe work AND the history of labor automation being applied to justify paying the workers subject to it less/treating them poorly is clear and consistent and not up for debate. So I'm also serious.
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I joke because haha vibe work AND the history of labor automation being applied to justify paying the workers subject to it less/treating them poorly is clear and consistent and not up for debate. So I'm also serious.
Super fun and immediately installed. Always love a good PWA game 🌐
(I still play Proxx @jakearchibald.com and @surma.dev and even got my 7 year old into it!)
(I still play Proxx @jakearchibald.com and @surma.dev and even got my 7 year old into it!)
September 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Super fun and immediately installed. Always love a good PWA game 🌐
(I still play Proxx @jakearchibald.com and @surma.dev and even got my 7 year old into it!)
(I still play Proxx @jakearchibald.com and @surma.dev and even got my 7 year old into it!)
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Aaaand my #BCON25 #b3d talk is already online!
It was (and is) an amazing experience.
Thank you so much @blender.org OTOY Render-Nnetwork and of course the amazing audience for having me 🥰
Hopefully you can take something away from it 🧑🎓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCia...
It was (and is) an amazing experience.
Thank you so much @blender.org OTOY Render-Nnetwork and of course the amazing audience for having me 🥰
Hopefully you can take something away from it 🧑🎓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCia...
September 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Aaaand my #BCON25 #b3d talk is already online!
It was (and is) an amazing experience.
Thank you so much @blender.org OTOY Render-Nnetwork and of course the amazing audience for having me 🥰
Hopefully you can take something away from it 🧑🎓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCia...
It was (and is) an amazing experience.
Thank you so much @blender.org OTOY Render-Nnetwork and of course the amazing audience for having me 🥰
Hopefully you can take something away from it 🧑🎓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCia...
So good.
"To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”"
"To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”"
"Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now grows at an exponential rate, without the need to pirate any more John Grisham books."
Behold! I Am the Singularity—a Word That Has Three R’s
Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now gro...
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
So good.
"To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”"
"To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”"
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Reposted by Alex Warnes
It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide.
The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
September 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide.
The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
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For my latest Weekly Chart at @datawrapper.de I tried a different way of mapping destruction in Gaza using OSM buildings. www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...
September 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
For my latest Weekly Chart at @datawrapper.de I tried a different way of mapping destruction in Gaza using OSM buildings. www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...
Anderson Japanese Gardens (August, 2025)
Shot on:
- Kodak Pro Image 100
- Minolta XD w/ Rokkor 35mm lens
#photography #kodak #shotonfilm
Shot on:
- Kodak Pro Image 100
- Minolta XD w/ Rokkor 35mm lens
#photography #kodak #shotonfilm
September 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Anderson Japanese Gardens (August, 2025)
Shot on:
- Kodak Pro Image 100
- Minolta XD w/ Rokkor 35mm lens
#photography #kodak #shotonfilm
Shot on:
- Kodak Pro Image 100
- Minolta XD w/ Rokkor 35mm lens
#photography #kodak #shotonfilm
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This week, our co-founder Gregor helps us make sense, or at least get a clearer picture, of the scale of destruction in the streets of Gaza. 🗺️
www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...
www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...
Mapping destruction in Gaza | Datawrapper Blog
Understanding Gaza’s urban damage through satellite data and mapping.
www.datawrapper.de
September 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This week, our co-founder Gregor helps us make sense, or at least get a clearer picture, of the scale of destruction in the streets of Gaza. 🗺️
www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...
www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...
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1800+ film workers are boycotting Israeli film institutions implicated in the genocide & apartheid of Palestinians.
Signers include: Aimee Lou Wood, Ava DuVernay, Ayo Edebiri, Brian Cox, Josh O'Connor, Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Yorgos Lanthimos, Javier Bardem
Signers include: Aimee Lou Wood, Ava DuVernay, Ayo Edebiri, Brian Cox, Josh O'Connor, Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Yorgos Lanthimos, Javier Bardem
September 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
1800+ film workers are boycotting Israeli film institutions implicated in the genocide & apartheid of Palestinians.
Signers include: Aimee Lou Wood, Ava DuVernay, Ayo Edebiri, Brian Cox, Josh O'Connor, Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Yorgos Lanthimos, Javier Bardem
Signers include: Aimee Lou Wood, Ava DuVernay, Ayo Edebiri, Brian Cox, Josh O'Connor, Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Yorgos Lanthimos, Javier Bardem
Svelte's easing fns re-applied to control erosion of gravitational strength over distance in threlte 🚀
Add static gravity sources (suns?) or dynamic bodes (comets?) with their own ~random gravity.
Try it out: stackblitz.com/edit/n-body-...
#svelte #threlte #threejs #threebodyproblem #stackblitz
Add static gravity sources (suns?) or dynamic bodes (comets?) with their own ~random gravity.
Try it out: stackblitz.com/edit/n-body-...
#svelte #threlte #threejs #threebodyproblem #stackblitz
September 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Svelte's easing fns re-applied to control erosion of gravitational strength over distance in threlte 🚀
Add static gravity sources (suns?) or dynamic bodes (comets?) with their own ~random gravity.
Try it out: stackblitz.com/edit/n-body-...
#svelte #threlte #threejs #threebodyproblem #stackblitz
Add static gravity sources (suns?) or dynamic bodes (comets?) with their own ~random gravity.
Try it out: stackblitz.com/edit/n-body-...
#svelte #threlte #threejs #threebodyproblem #stackblitz
updated the app to include a standalone SWU calculator after seeing this graphic from @worldnuclear.bsky.social (thank you to @aminal.bsky.social for sharing)
Also updated rounding logic for more precision and added WNA to the resources page 🧵⤵️
#nukesky
enrichment-calc.netlify.app
Also updated rounding logic for more precision and added WNA to the resources page 🧵⤵️
#nukesky
enrichment-calc.netlify.app
Enrichment Calculator
Create, refine, and connect dynamic gas-centrifuge enrichment calculators.
enrichment-calc.netlify.app
August 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
updated the app to include a standalone SWU calculator after seeing this graphic from @worldnuclear.bsky.social (thank you to @aminal.bsky.social for sharing)
Also updated rounding logic for more precision and added WNA to the resources page 🧵⤵️
#nukesky
enrichment-calc.netlify.app
Also updated rounding logic for more precision and added WNA to the resources page 🧵⤵️
#nukesky
enrichment-calc.netlify.app
Wu-Tang cloud spotted at the park today
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wu-Tang cloud spotted at the park today
Time to learn some Unreal with @gamedevtv.bsky.social!
Navigation is so different from Blender and will take some getting used to, blueprints are exciting, and there's a lot built in that is extremely convenient.
After lesson one I made this awesome and totally safe teeter-totter 😂
#UE5
Navigation is so different from Blender and will take some getting used to, blueprints are exciting, and there's a lot built in that is extremely convenient.
After lesson one I made this awesome and totally safe teeter-totter 😂
#UE5
August 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Time to learn some Unreal with @gamedevtv.bsky.social!
Navigation is so different from Blender and will take some getting used to, blueprints are exciting, and there's a lot built in that is extremely convenient.
After lesson one I made this awesome and totally safe teeter-totter 😂
#UE5
Navigation is so different from Blender and will take some getting used to, blueprints are exciting, and there's a lot built in that is extremely convenient.
After lesson one I made this awesome and totally safe teeter-totter 😂
#UE5
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80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had captured before, and none has again: the immediate aftermath of a city annihilated by nuclear weapons.
"Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima's nuclear toll."
"Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima's nuclear toll."
Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima’s nuclear toll
Yoshito Matsushige’s photographs Hiroshima’s destruction are among the most harrowing visual records of the nuclear age.
thebulletin.org
August 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had captured before, and none has again: the immediate aftermath of a city annihilated by nuclear weapons.
"Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima's nuclear toll."
"Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima's nuclear toll."
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What AI-based "vibe coding" feels like:
August 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
What AI-based "vibe coding" feels like:
"In November, 2024, a report by the Community Training Center for Crisis Management found that ninety-six per cent of children living through this war feel that their death is imminent, and nearly half said that they want to die."
I wrote for The New Yorker about Gaza’s mental health crisis, and spoke with therapists and psychologists still trying to help others through relentless trauma, while they themselves are displaced, grieving, and surviving day by day. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
In Gaza, where displaced children play games called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
www.newyorker.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"In November, 2024, a report by the Community Training Center for Crisis Management found that ninety-six per cent of children living through this war feel that their death is imminent, and nearly half said that they want to die."
Views from a morning hike up Grassi Lakes trail near Canmore, Alberta (June, 2025)
📷 Lumix S5IIX
🔍 Panasonic S 85mm
#photography #banff #mountains
📷 Lumix S5IIX
🔍 Panasonic S 85mm
#photography #banff #mountains
July 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Views from a morning hike up Grassi Lakes trail near Canmore, Alberta (June, 2025)
📷 Lumix S5IIX
🔍 Panasonic S 85mm
#photography #banff #mountains
📷 Lumix S5IIX
🔍 Panasonic S 85mm
#photography #banff #mountains